"Snack Attack"

On Brooklyn outfit A Great Big Pile of Leaves' new album, You're Always On My Mind, Pete Weiland guilt trips over staying inside his apartment, brags "I'm extroverted only when no one else is looking," and already starts to regret the passing of summer before it's even over. "Snack Attack" is then a handy summation of AGBPOL's M.O., an instantly ingratiating, modest pop-rock song about modest disappointments: it's past midnight, too hot too sleep and nothing's open.

On "Snack Attack", the unavailability of decent eating options becomes a fulcrum for a deeper existential trouble, as Weiland sings, "Late at night/ You and I never work out quite right," during the wooing chorus in fidgety, uneven intervals. Weiland's calm, lower register and the ability of the rhythm section to sound antsy even at midtempo recalls the conversational and cerebral, turn-of-the-millennium indie rock of Wheat or later Dismemberment Plan, positioning "Snack Attack" as a similarly extroverted song for people who choose to keep to themselves.